| Show 1932 PULITZER PRIZE AWARDS ARE ANNOUNCED Novelist Two Profess Professors rs Ex Ex- Newspaper Man Poet Are Winners NEW YORK May 5 ff A AA A A Tennessee Tennessee Ten Ten- novelist two university prof professors es sors a newspaper man turned playwright playwright play play- wright and an anu Illinois Illinois nI Connecticut poet have won the in Pulitzer prizes in letters for 1932 Tho The awards are For the best novel published during during during dur dur- ing year the-year by American an-American an author 1000 to The Store by T. T S S. S Strib Strib- ling For the ori original inal American play performed in New NewYork York which shall best represent the educational value and power of the state 1000 to Both Your Houses by Maxwell Anderson For the best book of the year upon upon the history of the United States 2000 to The Significance of ot Sections i in American History by Frederick J J. Turner BEST nEST BIOGRAPHY I I I For the best American biography teaching patriotism and unselfish h services services ser ser- vices to the people illustrated by an eminent example excluding as to too obvious the names of ot George WashIngton WashIngton WashIngton Wash Wash- Ington and Abraham Lincoln 1000 to Grover Graver Cleveland by Allan Ne Nc- vine For the best volume of at verse published published published pub pub- during the year ear by an American Ameri Ameri- can author 1000 to Conquistador by Archibald MacLeish Professor ProCessor Turnery Turner who was 70 10 years year old died in California last year Nevins and Anderson are arc in their early forties Stribling is 52 In its findings the jury gave these thes reasons for the various selections The novel Preference has has been given to The Th Store because of its sustained interest interest interest inter inter- est and because of ot the convincing and comprehensive picture It presents of life in an inland southern community community community ity during the middle eighties of th the thelast thelast last century The play This drama concerns concern the efforts of a n newly elected representative a at Washington to combat the raiding o othe of the national treasury by the appropriations committee The spirit of th the play is idealistic it breathes a fin fine indignation but it is so conducted that legitimate entertainment values value are arc not lost and the characters rs speak and act with convincing natural natural- ness AMERICAN EVOLUTION The history This is a selection of studies chosen chosen chosen cho cho- sen by certain of the friends of Professor Pro Pro- fessor Turner from among his works They treat important aspects of the evolution of American civilization in ina a thorough and fresh way are arc based base upon a wide reading of sources anc and andare are clear and careful in their point of view lew The Thc biography A book of value In the first place because it supplies what has been needed a dispassionate and comprehensIve comprehensive compre- compre survey of the subject Cleveland Cleveand Cleveland Cleve- Cleve land and is portrayed at full length and heis heis he hes is s impartially adjusted to his timet time It t makes a substantial contribution to o our political biography and should pr prove ive of service for fora a a. long time to toI the he lay reader and to the historian The verse Conquistador extremely modern modem In n its technique is on the whole the best poem that has been submitted this his year ear Stribling born 52 years ago at ClIfton Clifton Clifton Clif ClIf- ton Tenn has done practically all his writing seven seven novels and three books of short stories stories stories-in In the Tennessee Tennes Tennes- see hills He was co-author co o oRope of Rope a play that ran on Broadway In n 1028 Before turning to writing novel-writing Stribling tried being a lawyer a fertilizer fertilizer fertilizer fer fer- salesman a teacher and a magazine magazine magazine mag mag- azine Most of his winning prize book is based ased on actual events It is set in Florence Ala home of his mothers mother's family amily A dramatic lynching scene at the climax of the book is a composite composite com com- of several which he said have occurred In Florence Anderson whose play is still running running running run run- ning on Broadway is a year old native of Atlantic Pa who started his career as a teacher He was a newspaperman from 1914 to 1924 working on the Grand Forks N N. 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D Herald lerald the San Francisco Chronicle the he New York Globe the San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco Bulletin and the New York World MANY SUCCESSES In 1925 he began writing plays A Along Along long ong list of successes includes What Wha Price Glory written with Laurence Stallings and Elizabeth the Queen Professor Turner a n native o of Portage Portage Portage Port Port- age Wis was professor of American history at the University of Wisconsin Wiscon Wiscon- sin from 1892 to 1910 1010 and professor of history at Harvard from 1910 to 1924 1024 He had two homes homes in in San Marino Marino Marino Ma Ma- rino Cal Cat and in Hancock Point Me Nevins who is 42 and was born in Camp Point Ill has been an editorial writer on several New York newspapers newspapers news- news papers and since 1931 has been professor pro- pro lessor fessor of American history at Columbia Columbia Colum Colum- bia university MacLeish was born bom 40 years cars ago in Glencoe Ill but has lived most o ohis of his life lIfo In FarmIngton Conn His published books of verse date back to 1924 I |
